WASHINGTON (AP) – Eight-term Texas Rep. Kenny Marchant has announced his retirement. That makes him the 10th GOP lawmaker to say he won’t run for reelection in November 2020 and the seventh in two weeks. The departures are making it increasingly unlikely that Republicans will be able to regain the House majority next year. Marchant…… MORE
EL PASO (AP) – A hospital official says another victim of the weekend mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has died. Dr. Stephen Flaherty, of the Del Sol Medical Center, says the patient was one of two victims of Saturday’s attack to die at the hospital on Monday. Police earlier announced the death of one…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump condemned the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio as “evil attacks” that are crimes “against all humanity” and said unity must replace hatred in society. Trump gave the speech from the White House Monday, after a total of 29 people were killed in the shootings over…… MORE
MOUNT VERNON (WBAP/KLIF News) — Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles returns to the practice field Monday. Briles was hired by Mount Vernon High School earlier this year to be its head coach. The team holds its first practice today, with Briles expected to meet the media for the first time since the hire.…… MORE
FRISCO (WBAP/KLIF News) — The Frisco Roughriders and Carter BloodCare are teaming up with our media partners at WFAA-TV to help raise blood Monday night in the wake of this weekend’s deadly shooting in El Paso. The El Paso Police Department announced that city hospitals were in urgent need of blood after dozens were shot…… MORE
In the border town of El Paso, Texas, a shooter opened fire and left 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured. Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a shooter killed 9 people and injured at least 27 others. Here are some of their stories: Jordan Anchondo was among those killed in El Paso, Anchondo’s…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – A rambling screed posted just before the El Paso shooting said the massacre was in response to the “invasion” of Hispanics coming across the southern border. It railed against the dangers of mass immigration, warned that Hispanics will eventually take over the economy and government, and argued that attacking “low-security” targets was…… MORE
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) – A former elected official in South Texas faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in what prosecutors call a $4 million bribery case. Ex-Weslaco City Commissioner John Cuellar pleaded guilty Friday in McAllen, in a plea deal, to conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud. Federal prosecutors are…… MORE
UPDATED 8/4/2019 7:59PM CT DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The Latest on a deadly mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Nine white doves have been released at a vigil to honor the nine adults killed by a gunman in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio. Hundreds of people, mostly young adults,…… MORE
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The shooter who killed nine people and injured dozens when he opened fire early Sunday in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, before being quickly killed by police was a man in his 20s named Connor Betts, a law enforcement official said. Betts was killed by police less than a…… MORE
